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20192026
most citedExploiting Cognitive Structure for Adaptive Learning

137 citations · 214 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.LG2026

Detecting Pretraining Data in Large Language Models from a Free-Energy Perspective

Chenye Ke, Zirui Liu, Qi Liu +4

Detecting pretraining data in large language models is challenging because high likelihood can reflect either training exposure or strong generalization. In the joint space of pred…

cs.AI2026

Incorporating Cognitive Load and Knowledge Transfer for Multi-Domain Knowledge Tracing

Haotian Zhang, Shucun Wang, Jinze Wu +6

Knowledge Tracing (KT) aims to assess students' dynamic knowledge states from their learning histories. While most existing KT methods focus on single-domain learning with notable…

cs.AI2026

GeoDecider: An Evidence-Grounded Agent for Geological Interpretation via Deliberative Reasoning

Xiaoyu Tao, Mingyue Cheng, Jiahao Wang +6

Geological interpretation infers subsurface properties and structures from indirect geophysical observations. Well-log classification provides a measurable setting by assigning geo…

cs.CL2026

CAPO: Critic-Guided Action-Aligned Policy Optimization for Advancing LLM Agent Capabilities

Daoyu Wang, Qingchuan Li, Mingyue Cheng +6

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key technique for improving the agentic capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Although critic-free methods such as GRPO are increas…

cs.AI2025

CogMath: Assessing LLMs' Authentic Mathematical Ability from a Human Cognitive Perspective

Jiayu Liu, Zhenya Huang, Wei Dai +7

Although large language models (LLMs) show promise in solving complex mathematical tasks, existing evaluation paradigms rely solely on a coarse measure of overall answer accuracy,…

cs.CL2025

From Objectives to Questions: A Planning-based Framework for Educational Mathematical Question Generation

Cheng Cheng, Zhenya Huang, Guanhao Zhao +5

Automatically generating high-quality mathematical problems that align with educational objectives is a crucial task in NLP-based educational technology. Traditional generation met…

cs.AI2025

am-ELO: A Stable Framework for Arena-based LLM Evaluation

Zirui Liu, Jiatong Li, Yan Zhuang +5

Arena-based evaluation is a fundamental yet significant evaluation paradigm for modern AI models, especially large language models (LLMs). Existing framework based on ELO rating sy…

cs.LG2025

MiMu: Mitigating Multiple Shortcut Learning Behavior of Transformers

Lili Zhao, Qi Liu, Wei Chen +5

Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) models often rely on spurious correlations between features and labels during the learning process, leading to shortcut learning behavior that und…

cs.CL2024

CursorCore: Assist Programming through Aligning Anything

Hao Jiang, Qi Liu, Rui Li +2

Large language models have been successfully applied to programming assistance tasks, such as code completion, code insertion, and instructional code editing. However, these applic…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

ChemEval: A Comprehensive Multi-Level Chemical Evaluation for Large Language Models

Yuqing Huang, Rongyang Zhang, Xuesong He +15

There is a growing interest in the role that LLMs play in chemistry which lead to an increased focus on the development of LLMs benchmarks tailored to chemical domains to assess th…

cs.AI2024★ 5 cited

A Survey of Models for Cognitive Diagnosis: New Developments and Future Directions

Fei Wang, Weibo Gao, Qi Liu +8

Cognitive diagnosis has been developed for decades as an effective measurement tool to evaluate human cognitive status such as ability level and knowledge mastery. It has been appl…

cs.CL2024

EduNLP: Towards a Unified and Modularized Library for Educational Resources

Zhenya Huang, Yuting Ning, Longhu Qin +8

Educational resource understanding is vital to online learning platforms, which have demonstrated growing applications recently. However, researchers and developers always struggle…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Learning to Solve Geometry Problems via Simulating Human Dual-Reasoning Process

Tong Xiao, Jiayu Liu, Zhenya Huang +4

Geometry Problem Solving (GPS), which is a classic and challenging math problem, has attracted much attention in recent years. It requires a solver to comprehensively understand bo…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Survey of Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Machine Learning Perspective

Yan Zhuang, Qi Liu, Haoyang Bi +12

Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) offers an efficient and personalized method for assessing examinee proficiency by dynamically adjusting test questions based on individual perfo…

cs.CV2024

Bit-mask Robust Contrastive Knowledge Distillation for Unsupervised Semantic Hashing

Liyang He, Zhenya Huang, Jiayu Liu +4

Unsupervised semantic hashing has emerged as an indispensable technique for fast image search, which aims to convert images into binary hash codes without relying on labels. Recent…

cs.CY2024★ 7 cited

Unified Uncertainty Estimation for Cognitive Diagnosis Models

Fei Wang, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen +4

Cognitive diagnosis models have been widely used in different areas, especially intelligent education, to measure users' proficiency levels on knowledge concepts, based on which us…

cs.CL2023

Generative Input: Towards Next-Generation Input Methods Paradigm

Keyu Ding, Yongcan Wang, Zihang Xu +4

Since the release of ChatGPT, generative models have achieved tremendous success and become the de facto approach for various NLP tasks. However, its application in the field of in…

cs.CL2023★ 15 cited

Position: AI Evaluation Should Learn from How We Test Humans

Yan Zhuang, Qi Liu, Zachary A. Pardos +5

As AI systems continue to evolve, their rigorous evaluation becomes crucial for their development and deployment. Researchers have constructed various large-scale benchmarks to det…

cs.CL2023

Towards a Holistic Understanding of Mathematical Questions with Contrastive Pre-training

Yuting Ning, Zhenya Huang, Xin Lin +4

Understanding mathematical questions effectively is a crucial task, which can benefit many applications, such as difficulty estimation. Researchers have drawn much attention to des…

cs.AI2021★ 2 cited

Quality meets Diversity: A Model-Agnostic Framework for Computerized Adaptive Testing

Haoyang Bi, Haiping Ma, Zhenya Huang +5

Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) is emerging as a promising testing application in many scenarios, such as education, game and recruitment, which targets at diagnosing the knowl…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

Neural Cognitive Diagnosis for Intelligent Education Systems

Fei Wang, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen +5

Cognitive diagnosis is a fundamental issue in intelligent education, which aims to discover the proficiency level of students on specific knowledge concepts. Existing approaches us…

cs.LG2019★ 36 cited

QuesNet: A Unified Representation for Heterogeneous Test Questions

Yu Yin, Qi Liu, Zhenya Huang +4

Understanding learning materials (e.g. test questions) is a crucial issue in online learning systems, which can promote many applications in education domain. Unfortunately, many s…

cs.CY2019★ 137 cited

Exploiting Cognitive Structure for Adaptive Learning

Qi Liu, Shiwei Tong, Chuanren Liu +4

Adaptive learning, also known as adaptive teaching, relies on learning path recommendation, which sequentially recommends personalized learning items (e.g., lectures, exercises) to…